America is being run by Zaphod Beeblebrox

[mac56]

America Is Being Run by Zaphod Beeblebrox https://share.google/NFDknyfqnEh5C7d1D

“Adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.” He is a jerk to Arthur Dent, a terrible partner to his girlfriend Trillian, and relentlessly self-obsessed. He’s also president of the galaxy.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Not a bad comparison...

although I was thinking Ignatius J Reilly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces follows the misadventures of protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly, a lazy, overweight, misanthropic, self-styled scholar who lives at home with his mother. He is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living in the Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans who, in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.

[usonian]

2. He needs a pan galactic gargle blaster

Or 2 or 3 or 20.

[lapfog_1]

3. written in 2017... this was about Trump 1

Trump 2 is far more threatening and meaner and more interested in actually being dictator for life ( whatever is left of his ).

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. Most importantly, Zaphod understood the job.

He knew the job of President wasn’t to wield power but to direct attention away from those who actually did. He was perfect for it.

[gay texan]

5. Gotta disagree with that

Zaphod got it right a few times. Yes, he was a freewheeling drunk, and a jerk, but he came around in the end

[Morbius]

12. Yeah.

Zaphod had an inherent coolness to him, and a moral core. These are not attributes of our President.

[Hieronymus Phact]

6. It's more like Eric Cartman

[EverHopeful]

7. Hope I can figure out how to post this

https://postimg.cc/HrXzqXGm

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." — Douglas Adams

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I've been saying it for years

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220009945

I was saying it in his first term too, but search (whether Duck Duck Go or Google) just doesn't pick up old DU posts properly these days.

[Celerity]

10. here, DU's software cannot post images from a URL like you used

[GoneOffShore]

8. Zaphod was entertaining unlike the Vogons (even though they wrote poetry).

He also was basically oblivious and only wanted a good time.

[taxi]

11. Easy on the Vogons now.

We have a bunch of pencil pushers here and any good desk jockey has some Vogons traits.

[GoneOffShore]

13. But their poetry!

[Happy Hoosier]

14. Nope. Zaphod was cool. NT

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. That depends on the version of the HHGG

At the end of the second radio series, it seemed he had been in league with a consortium of rich psychiatrists (eg Gag Halfrunt) to have the Earth demolished to stop the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything being found out (which would have cost the psychiatrists a lot of money).